By Matters India Reporter Tura, Aug 18: A Salesian college in Meghalaya has completed 100 years of service in the northeastern Indian state. The centenary of the Salesians entry into the region and Don Bosco college in Tura recently took place at the college on August 18. Minister of FoodContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jharsuguda, Aug 18, 2022: Father Petrus Kullu, provincial of the Divine World Society’s Eastern Indian province, died August 18 of suspected Covid-19 infection. The death occurred at 4:15 pm in the Covid ward of Vikash Hospital, Bargarh near Sambalpur, a major town in the eastern IndianContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 18, 2022: Raksha Bandhan was celebrated all over the country on August 11. Many families celebrated it meaningfully. Yet, here is a shocking story. “Madam, everything is over in my life. I do not want to live and I want to die,” cried MeenaContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Aug 18, 2022: The Amrit Mahotsav is over. This August 15 I had to hoist the flag at one event and arrange for it at another. At both events I spoke on the “Har Ghar Tiranga” (The Tricolour in Every home) campaign. My first thoughts went backContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 18, 2022: A Catholic group working for reforms in the Catholic Church in the southern Indian state of Kerala has sought the country’s top court help to restrict the powers of bishops. The Kerala Catholic Church Reformation Movement, registered as Catholic Association, wantsContinue Reading
By I P Sarto Patna, Aug 17, 2022: A group of Small Christian Communities (SCCs) animators August 17 decided to form media teams in Jharkhand and Bengal regions. The decision was taken on the first day of an eight-day workshop on media communication held at Atma Darshan, Jesuit retreat CentreContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 17, 2022: A group of Christians belonging to different denominations in the southern Indian state of Kerala has decided not to avail church burials as part of their effort to reform Churches and promote organ and body donations. Catholics formed more than 90 percentContinue Reading
By Chris Herlinger New York, Aug 17, 2022: Jyoti Thottam, senior opinion editor at The New York Times, has written a widely praised history of a group of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth recently published by Viking, Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India.Continue Reading
Abia, Aug 16, 2022: A priest and a seminarian kidnapped in Abia State, southeast Nigeria, were released unhurt August 15. Spiritan Father Chinedu Nwadike, who is deputy registrar at the Spiritan University Nneochi, and the seminarian were abducted August 12 at gunpoint shortly after driving out of the university gatesContinue Reading
By Donna Birrell London, Aug 16, 2022: The Coptic Archbishop of London has urged Christians to pray for the victims of a church fire in Egypt. At least 41 people died in the blaze at the Coptic Abu Sefein church in Giza August 14 morning. Eighteen children, aged between threeContinue Reading
